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In which Prosh’s plans sort of come to fruition; we do not know very much about movies; Iceman dies (but is fine); The Stranger gets around; and Toad learns nothing.
X-PLAINED:
- The Stranger
- X-Men Forever #4-6
- Prosh (more) (again)
- The story so far
- Astra (again)
- The Black Womb Project
- Toad’s secret origins, possibly
- Fashion
- Hazard
- Amanda Mueller (a bit)
- Anguirus
- The end of human civilization
- Foreshadowing
- A dramatic reveal
- Several makeovers
- Darth Toad
- Fighting arenas / community theaters
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Lava Lamp Babies would be a great band name.
For one moment I though Jay was going to make the near inevtiable Doctor Who quote from ‘Blink’: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of… wibbly.wobbly…, timey.wimey… stuff.” I’m not sure I got the reference he did make though. Was it a quote?
Freezing the Stranger’s eye beams as if they were a solid thing reminds my butterfly brain of a character from the Kesels’ “Hawk and Dove” series from the 90’s where they introduced some new members to Jack Kirby’s classic “Female Furies” line-up. One of them was a psychopath named Bloody Mary, whose powers included using beams from her eyes to pick things up and throw them around. Eventually Hawk realises that if they’re solid enough to pick things up, then they should be solid enough to be picked up. So he grabs her eye beams as ths shoot past, gives them a whipcrack and slams her head first into a wall. Ouch! (I mean she had killed a LOT of people, so I don’t have any sympathy for her but, even so, being grabbed by the eyebeams when they’re still attached to the actual eyeBALLS? ICK!)
So when you were trying to classify what kind of cosmic person The Stranger is… he is what is referred to as an “Elder of the Universe,” and most of these dudes are the last surviving member of their race/planet/whatever. And because they are the last, they all have like epic titles. You probably know most of these guys: The Stranger, The Collector, The Grandmaster, The Gardener, The Champion, The Possessor, etc.
One other thing going back to the previous episode: St. John Allerdyce, Pyro’s true name. St. John is a very BRITISH name, and it actually is not pronounced “Saint John.” It is pronounced “SIN-jin.” I learned that from the TV show “Mad Men,” who had a prominent villain named St. John in the middle seasons.
Is the Stranger an Elder? I thought he was “just” a permanently active Uni-Mind and those are their own thing.
As you say, the Elders normally have their one obessession which they devoted their lives to, and so almost embody on a cosmic level.
The Stranger is strange, but that’s not enough to be an Elder, is it?
(And thank you for mentioning the “St John” being “SinJin”! 🙂 )
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Wolverine card image
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mutant flying-through clouds
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